The Pickpocket's Promenade in the Spite is really useful for grinding certain items at lower (pre-POSI) levels. However, to get a substantial amount of Pickpocket's Trophies you need to be very efficient and figuring out all the possible trophies/progress/unseen combinations to devise a good strategy seems very time consuming.
Is there a comprehensive reference of the options available here with success and failure rewards?
Best Answer
I haven't been able to find a really good reference for this. It seems that all the information is buried very deeply in the Echo Bazaar wiki, though. So I thought I'd collect all that information to provide such a reference.
Collecting Trophies
The following is a table of all opportunity cards and their options. For each of them, I list
T/P/U
, whereT
is the amount of Pickpocket's Trophies you get or lose,P
is the change in your Approaching your Destination quality andU
is the change in your Unseen quality.Note that for
T
andU
positive numbers are good, and forP
negative numbers are good. You don't wantU
to reach 0 orP
to reach 10. AlsoU
will never increase beyond 3. Some choices also include an annotation denoted by one of†*²³"'
if there are other rewards thanT/P/U
.In summary, you don't really ever want to pick the first/free option, with the exception of Window-shopping for A mould-spangled curiosity shop. In the other cases, provided you're confident to succeed, the other option is always better. But also note, that there are some cards you don't really want to use at all, primarily Watchful Eyes because it only has negative effects, and some like A drunk which are very inefficient.
By far the best cards are A Special Constable, A... pickpocket? and Jack!
Remember that you can also use the non-card action Loiter, which will always give you
P
-1, but may also incurU
-1 or -2, so this should be a sort of last resort, if none of your card options allow you to continue.Spending Trophies
And here is a list of what you can buy from the Pickpocket's Trophies:
Please let me know if a got anything wrong, or if you figure out how many change points you get in the places where it still says
+??
.